Trevor Sargent (Dublin North, Green Party)

It is so obvious that I really do not want to trivialise the matter in any way, I merely want to bring the Government back to the all-party committee's recommendations to tackle the heart of affordability in housing. If that was done, we would be able to ensure that our communities were had affordable housing, in many cases a parent could stay at home at least for part of the life of the children and there would be greater community involvement and much more volunteer involvement in the community, which is a feature we are not seeing. As a basic start, I challenge the Government to allow housing to be a basic right in the Constitution. From there on, the onus would be on the Government to deliver on that.

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